Unit 6 - Personal and Professional Development in the

Health and Social Care Sector (T/618/4172)

Level 3
Related Qualifications: ATHE Level 3 Diploma in Health and
Social Care (603/6568/7) 2020 version
Assignment
You are to consider your own potential career in health and social care in your
chosen country. You will need to look at career opportunities and professional
development and prepare your own personal development plan for a chosen career
role.

The Study Skills used, developed and assessed through this assignment are as
follows:

 Critical thinking
 Planning, organising and time management
 Research
 Gathering information, note taking and summarising
 Analysis
 Written skills
 Academic skills, including referencing
 Application of IT skills
 Reflection

Task 1
Further to research on careers and job roles in the health and social care sector
within your chosen country. You should:
 Write an outline of a range of careers and job roles in health and social care
 Explain progression within a chosen health and social care career area.
 Identify the standards relating to professional development for a range of
health and social care roles.

Learning outcomes and assessment criteria LO1 1.1; LO2 2.1

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Task 2
Consider the requirements of continuing professional development and how you can
assess and plan your own development. You should:
 Assess the need for continuing professional development in health and social
care.
 Explain what is meant by reflective practice
 Explain theoretical models of reflective practice
 Outline the stages in planning own personal and professional development
 Explain how to identify development needs
 Explain how to write SMART targets for own personal development

Extension activities:
To gain a merit grade, you should also:
 Assess how reflective practice supports professional development

To gain a distinction grade, you should also:

 Analyse the benefits of reflective practice

Learning outcomes and assessment criteria LO2 2.2; LO3 3.1, 3.2, 3M1, 3D1; LO4
4.1 4.2 4.3

Task 3
For a specific job role/ career pathway in health and social care that you are
interested in, you should:
 Analyse skills and knowledge required for a specific role in health and social
care
 Analyse impact of own attitudes, values and beliefs on provision and practice
of care
 Reflect on own learning
 Create own personal development plan for a chosen career role

Extension activities:
To gain a merit grade, you should also:
 Assess the continuing professional development requirements for a chosen
health and social care role
 Carry out a skills audit to identify development needs

Learning outcomes and assessment criteria LO1 1.3; LO3 3.3, 3.4; LO2 2M1; LO4
4.4, 4M1

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Guidelines for assessors

The assignments submitted by learners must achieve the learning outcomes and meet the standards specified by the assessment
criteria for the unit. To achieve a merit or distinction grade, the learners must demonstrate that they have achieved all the criteria
set for these grades. Where work for the pass standard is marginal, assessors can take into account any extension work completed
by the learners. The suggested evidence listed below is how learners can demonstrate that they have met the required standards.

Task LOs and AC Suggested evidence Suggested additional Suggested additional

number
1. LO1 1.1; LO2 2.1
2. LO2 2.2; LO3 3.1,
3.2, 3M1, 3D1; LO4
4.1 4.2 4.3
3 LO1 1.3; LO3 3.3,
3.4; LO2 2M1; LO4
PASS evidence MERIT evidence DISTINCTION
Learners need to show that they have
researched a range of job roles/careers
and considered access points,
responsibilities and progression
opportunities. They should also identify
professional bodies relating to various
roles and careers and the standards and
codes of practice they put in place.
Learners need to consider the need for Learners should explain Learners should identify
CPD in professional health and social how reflective practice the benefits of reflection
care roles and demonstrate an supports professional for their own development,
understanding of reflective practice development by for service users and
including how to keep a reflective diary. supporting continuous colleagues/ their
They should give a clear explanation of improvement, for organisation.
models of reflective practice e.g. Kolb, example.
Gibbs, Schon.
They need to explain the process of
planning professional development, how
to identify development needs, and how
to set SMART targets – including an
explanation of SMART targets.
Learners should choose a health and Learners need to
social care job role/career path and carry research and assess

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 4.4, 4M1 out the tasks based around that role. the CPD requirements
They need to identify the skills and for the job role they
knowledge, qualifications and have chosen.
experience required for the role. They
should consider their own attitudes, Learners should carry
values and beliefs and clearly show how out a skills audit to
these could affect the provision of care in identify their own
their chosen role. current skill level and
They should carry out a reflective compare this against
exercise to assess their own learning. the skills they need for
The personal development plan should the potential job.
identify career aims and development
required using SMART goals and the
results of their analyses in this section.

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